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, APPLIOATION FILED JUNE 30. 1906.

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UNITED sTArns PATENT OFFICE.

, PERLEY R. GLASS, OF QUINCY, MASSACHUSETTS, AND LORENZ MUTHER, OF

DENVER, COLORADO; SAID GLASS ASSIGNOR TO THE PEERLESS MA- CHINERY COMPANY, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

GAGE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented March 12, 1907.

Application filed June 30,1906. Serial No. 824,134.

To all who/"1'1, zit may concern:

Be it known that we, PERLEY R. GLAssfia citizen of the United States, and a resident of Quincy, in the county of N orfolk and State of Massachusetts, and LORENZ hlUTHER, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Denver, in the county of Denver and State of material while being reskived, the gage being I more especially adapted for use in connection with skiving-machines for skiving leather and the like. When the edge of a piece of leather is tapered, as commonly done in many lines of manufacture where leather is and kindred material is used, it frequently 3 happens that the material has to be reskived or tapered to reduce the edge to just the proper thickness, and it is essential that the edge of the material-for instance, for a toecap or other part of a shoe-be tapered uniformly; otherwise the work is not considered first class. The gage herein to be de scribed presents a bearing portion mounted on an adjustable fulcrum, so that the inclination of the part of the gage bearing on the stock may be varied to conform to the taper already presented in the stock by skiving the same.

Figure 1, in side elevation, represents our improved gage in connection with a feed wheel or su port, on which is sustained a piece of stool; being skived. Fig. 2 is a plan view of the gage; and Fig. 3 is a section in the line 51:, Fig. 1.

The gage comprises a base or foundation plate A, having, as shown, a depending portion A to fit the inner end of the feed-Wheel fitted to the skiving-machine illustrated in application, Serial No. 312,524, filed April 19, 1906.

A spring-arm C is connected near one end by a screw A with plate A, said arm having a hole to receive a stud c, that acts as a guide therefor. The arm sustains bearing por tion or foot and also receives an adjusting device 0, shown as a screw, the point of Which. below the under side of the arm contacts with the upper side of said plate, the rotation of said screw in one or the other direction. raising or lowering the free end 0 of the arm C, according to the thickness of the stock being skived, the adjusting device heingmaintained in its adjusted position by a lock-nut 0*. The free end of the arm C is slotted at 2 (see Fig. 2) to receive a carriage that sustains the bearing portion or foot D, said carriage comprising a head 3, the upper side of which contacts with the under side of the free end. 0 of the arm C, while below said head the carriage presents a depending portion 5, having a stud 6, that enters a slot 7 in the bearing portion D.

The carriage is locked in any position in which it may be adjusted longitudinally of the slot 2 by a set-nut E.

The free end a of the arm C has a depending lip or flange 8, notched near its inner end at 9, (see Fig. 1,)to receive a pin or projection 10, extended from the bearing portion or foot, said pin and slot preventing longitudinal movement of the bearing portion or.

foot toward and from the part A, the left hand face of which constitutes a gage against which may travel the edge of the stock being skived.

It will be understood that the pin 6 constitutes an adjustable fulcrum for the bearing portion or foot D, that the under side of said bearing portion or foot in contact with the stock may be tipped more or less in either direction by unloosening the nut E and sliding the carriage in one or the other direction, and

therefore by the adjustment of this fulcrum any desired angular osition may be obtained for the lower side of the bearing portion or foot that contacts with and rides over the stock, said inclination being variable according to the taper previously given to a piece of stock already skived.

Viewing Fig. 3, it will be seen that the side of the bearing portion or foot at which the incoming stock being skived first acts is rounded, as at d.

Prior to our invention we are not aware that a gage has ever had a bearing portion provided with an adjustable fulcrum so that the lower side of the bearing portion in con tact with the work may be adjusted to any desired taper, and this feature we desire to claim broadly.

Having described our invention, what we claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In apparatus of the class described, an arm having a bearing portion or foot, and an adjustable fulcrum sustaining said bearing portion or foot, whereby the inclination of the under side'of the bearing portion or foot may be adjusted to the taper of the stock to be reskived, and on which said bearing portion or foot rests.

2. In apparatus of the class described, an arm having a bearing portion or foot slotted longitudinally, and an adjustable fulcrum mounted on said slot and sustaining said bearing portion or foot, change of position of the fulcrum changing the inclination of the lower side of the bearing portion or foot in, contact with the stock.

foundation-plate having a portion to consti tute an edge-guide, combined with an arm provided with a bearing portion or foot, and

3. In apparatus of the class described, a

an adjustable fulcrum on which said foot may tip between its ends, the adjustment of the fulcrum providing for varying the inclination of the under side of said bearing portion or foot to adapt the same to the already-skived edge of material to be reskived.

4. A foundation-plate having a portion to constitute an edge-guide, a bearing portion or foot, and means to sustain adjustably a fulcrum on which said bearing portion or foot is mounted, the adjustment of the fulcrum varying the inclination of the under side of the bearing portion or foot, and means for adjusting vertically the device for sustaining said bearing portion or foot.

In apparatus of the class described, a plate slotted for the reception of a carriage, a carriage adjustably mounted in said plate and having a fulcrum, a bearin portion or foot sustained by said fulcrum, change of position of the fulcrum changing the inclination of the lower side of the bearing portion or foot, and means to prevent longitudinal movement of said bearing portion or foot.

In testimony whereof we have signed our names to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

PERLEY R. GLASS. LORENZ MUTHER. i tnesses:

GEO. W. GREGORY. MARGARET A. DUNN. 

